Collar button



July 21, 1925. 1,546,539

H. H. FRITTS COLLAR BUTTON Filed Jan. 23, 192

Patented July 21, 1925.

, 7 HERBERT H. FRIT'IS, 01F SHILOH, NEW JERSEY.

COLLAR BUTTON.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, HERBERT H. Fnrrrs, residing at Shiloh, New Jersey, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

It sometimes happens that the neck band of a shirt may be so short that the button holes at the ends of the band do not aline when the shirt is worn, so that the ordinary collar-button cannot be passed through the two holes, and the makeshift is resorted to of connecting the ends of the neck band by a piece of string or tape passed through the two holes and then placing the collar button in one of the holes. This besides being not a neat or 'sightly arrangement has the fnrther objection that the collar button is not centrally located. The object of my invention is to provide a button which will satistactorily and comfortably, and in a sightly manner join the ends of a neck band that is too short and which will assure the central position of the collar button. My invention consists in a collar button having the construction described by or included within the terms or scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a collar button embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the neck hand of a shirt with the ends connected by one of my buttons.

My collar button comprises a head, 10, corresponding to the head of the ordinary straight shank button, a back, 11, preferably in the form of a flat disk as in the ord inary straight shank button and which lies next to the flesh of the wearer and a shank, 12, in the form of two reversed bends, the extremity of one bend being attached to the base, 11, at one edge thereof and the eX-- Application filed January 23, 1924. Serial No. 688,068.

tremity of the other bond which is concentrio with said base, 11, is attached to the head, 10, so that the latter is concentric with the base and the shank is of a form and thickness which permit its ready passage through the button holes, 13, at the opposite ends of the neck band, 14:, so that one bend is a hook which engages one end of the neck band and the other is a hook which engages the other end of the neck band so that the two button holes are spaced apart equi-distant between the inner sides of the hooks. As the reversed bends throw or place the two hooks out of alinement so that one lies in advance of the other it will be seen that the ends of the neck band do not aline but lie so that one is in a plane overlapping the other and thus the edges of the placket of the shirt may overlap-and be smoothly connected by the euston'iary buttons and button holes.

hat I claim is:

1. A collar button comprising a base and a head with a shank connecting the base and the head having reversed bends, the head being concentric with the base, the shank icing connected to the head at the side thereof, whereby a portion of the neck band lies directly between the shank and the adjacent side of the head.

2. A collar button comprising a base and a head with a shank connecting the base and the head having reversed bends, the head being concentric with the base, the reverse bends lying in ovcrlappin planes, the shank being connected to the head at the side there of, whereby a portion of the neck band lies directly between the shank and the adjacent side of the head.

In testimony whereof I hereunto atlix my signature.

HERBERT H. FRITTS. 

